Recommended OB/GYN/NEWBORN Nursing READING LIST!
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Saw this on the NEONATAL/NICU Area and I believe it's a GREAT idea. WHO knows better the best reading materials, books, sites to use to enhance our knowledge of Inpatient OB/GYN nursing than ... Read More

Saw this on the NEONATAL/NICU Area and I believe it's a GREAT idea. WHO knows better the best reading materials, books, sites to use to enhance our knowledge of Inpatient OB/GYN nursing than midwives and OB-GYN and newborn nurses??? I thought we could do the same and make this a "sticky" thread and help others looking for ideas/help regarding what the best and most useful materials are to enhance our practice. Also would be looking for books to entertain us in our speciality. What say you?

On my list of favorites is:
Gentle Birth Choices by Barbara Haper, RN
Maternal-Neonatal Facts made Icredibly Quick!
Birth as an American Rite of Passage by Robbie Davis-Floyd
The Labor Progress Handbook by Penny Simkin and Ruth Ancheta
The Nurturing Touch at Birth: A Labor Support Handbook by Paulina Perez, RN- I'm biased here as I wrote this one. I just revised and updated it and it is now twice as large. It is on the press right now and will be ready for shipment in a few weeks.www.cuttingedgepress.net
When Survivors Give Birth: Understanding and Healing the Effects of Eearly Sexual Abuse on Childbearing Women by Penny Simkin and Phyliss Klaus
and
Births Balls: The Use of Phsyical Therapy Balls in Maternity Care by Paulina Perez http://www.cuttingedgepress.net

On my list of favorites is:
Gentle Birth Choices by Barbara Haper, RN
Maternal-Neonatal Facts made Icredibly Quick!
Birth as an American Rite of Passage by Robbie Davis-Floyd
The Labor Progress Handbook by Penny Simkin and Ruth Ancheta
The Nurturing Touch at Birth: A Labor Support Handbook by Paulina Perez, RN- I'm biased here as I wrote this one. I just revised and updated it and it is now twice as large. It is on the press right now and will be ready for shipment in a few weeks.www.cuttingedgepress.net
When Survivors Give Birth: Understanding and Healing the Effects of Eearly Sexual Abuse on Childbearing Women by Penny Simkin and Phyliss Klaus
and
Births Balls: The Use of Phsyical Therapy Balls in Maternity Care by Paulina Perez http://www.cuttingedgepress.net

THANK YOU for these contributions, Polly and welcome to Allnurses.com, and the OB/GYN/Midwifery Forum. Looking so forward to hearing more from you on the forums/threads here.

Hi! I'm new here, an ex UK midwife and nurse, not worked for a long time but just done a refresher course and looking for an OB nursing post in the US (live here now). Anyone else moved from midwifery in the UK to OB nursing here? I'd love to hear from you!

Anyway the publication I used the most when I was practicing was MIDIRS, http://www.midirs.org/
it is basically a publication which looks through worldwide midwifery/obstetric journals and reviews the findings, and you can search the site as well. Not cheap but especially when studying a wonderful resource.

I am a nurse in a level II community hospital newborn nursery. We have approximately 90-100 births a month with a lot of high risk deliveries/outcomes. I also have experience in working as a staff nurse in a large NICU. I would love to use this sight as a resource professionally and also personally. It is nice to hear others with the same concerns/feelings I have experienced. I am looking for up to date NANDAs for nursery mother/baby units to revise our current departments. I am on a committee formed make/install MEDITECH in our hospital? Any good ideas?

Meditech is 1985 techology that is cumbersome and ineffective. It's only good for order entry, really. Charting meds and nurse's notes on there, is the pits, frankly. It's gotten so the dr's make us chart vital signs and patient I/O on paper cause they don't want to bother looking for them---and it takes forever to do admission assessments on this dinosaur, too.

My best advice???? NO CANNED TEXT---make everything you can open field responses, so as to reduce stress/frustation and time spent by the staff stuck using this. Use as few canned text lookups as possible. PLEASE.

( I was charged w/writing templates for our OB unit in my other life, so I know what I am saying here)

I am sorry for the poor attitude, but I have learned over 9 years using it in two places, Meditech makes our lives harder, not easier. and E-MAR is rife w/opportunity for error. Watch out and be careful as you use this. Since you are already "stuck" with this, just keep the USERS in mind as you write your templates and listen to their suggestions, and be prepared for lots of grumbling. Also, do your best to keep your labor flow sheets and nurses' notes OFF Meditech and on paper. Just a really strong suggestions.

Won't hurt to grow a thick skin. Wishing you the best. If I can help you just ask.

Wow. Thanks so much for all these great suggestions! I graduate from nursing school next week, and will be starting my dream job on Mother/Baby in July, on the same unit I did my senior practicum experience. I can't wait to get started, and these books will serve as the perfect summer reading to fill the time until then.

When I picked up a few of these at our library (Girls Who Went Away, Beggars & Choosers), I came across another one that looks good:

"The Pill:A Biography of the Drug that Changed the World" by Bernard Asbell

It's a few years old (1995), but it is very interesting, from what I've read so far.

I skulked AllNurses as a nurse and I'm now half way through training as a midwife in the National Maternity Hospital in Dublin. We see over 8000 births a year and we are the main referral centre for the whole of Ireland. It's busy!

The main text book I use is Myles Textbook for Midwives. It covers everything!

Another fab book is 'CTG Made Easy by Susan Gauge and Christine Henderson'

If you want a good read, there is a swries of 3 books by an Irish author called Sinead Moriarty. The first id called 'The Baby Trail' and is about the journey a woman goes on when trying to concieve. By the end of this book she had decided to adopt a child and so he second book is called 'A Perfect Match'. The third and final book is called 'From Here to Maternity'. The books had me laughing out loud and crying like a baby. I'd highly recommend them.

Anyway, I have exams this week, first one in the morning! So wish me luck!